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Show RMSFOHD FLETCHER 1 1 MAKES HIS WAY 1 I OUT OF MEXICO 1 Ransford Fletcher. formerly of Ogden, but who has been In Mexico j I for the past two years as superin- 51 I tendeni of one "( the Guggenheim III m mlnei near Parral and whose many , Ogden friends have been anxious I rttiout him. has come out safely, wltfl jl! I B band of twenty other Americans M who were all obliged to leave in a iff I bodj owing to the desperate cbndl- 1 tion of affairs in that part of Chi- it. huahua, which is over-run by tli contending armies. M Business is paralyzed and trans- I po rtatlOH facilities are prostrated M Mr Fletcher. In the two years h- L has been in Mexico, has had soni f J weird and ghastly experiences with M the bandits who Infest t'hlhuahua. ji H He Is sailing from New York this ji H ir k for Venezuela to tak the po- H mi on of superintendent of a mine ear Caracas, which Is owned by H the Count De Llchtcnstein and a I- 'i'inli company Hrl iM rVheo asked If he would return to II H tfexico wheu peace is restored, he k i , V expressed n hope of doing so. speak- j tag ol 11 with enthusiasm as one of M th richesl and fairest countries in II-.f world He says that all Amer-leans Amer-leans who have ben driven out, hope to go back at the first opportunity 1 Mr Fletcher is a son of John D. jM and Mr Katherlne pletthST of Mon- rH treal, Canada Mr Flercher Is at present tralfJC superintendent of the H Canadian Pacific Railway Telegrams. His father, the latn Captain Raus- 1 ford Fletcher, was one of Ogden's .arllet residents and before going to Canada, the Fletchers were well and popularity known in local bust- H ncss and social circles. They were Lf |